Eggless "Perfectly Chocolate" Cake

I am excited to post this cake for this month's Baking Eggless challenge. Gayathri had asked each one of us to suggest a recipe and the first recipe which came to my mind was this Perfect chocolate cake. I have used sour cream as egg replacer. The cake turned out soft and moist.

Ingredients:

All Purpose flour	1 ½ cup
Sugar	1 cup
Baking powder	1 tsp
Baking soda	1 1/2 tsp
Cocoa powder	5 tblsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Oil	½ cup
Sour cream(see note below)	¼ cup
Milk	½ cup
Hot water	½ cup
Vanilla essence	1 tsp

For the chocolate Frosting:

Butter	¼ cup
Sour cream	¼ cup
Icing sugar	1 cup
Vanilla essence	1tsp
Cocoa powder	2 tsp
Melted semisweet chocolate	2 tblsp

Method:

• Preheat oven to 170 ºC.
• Sift Flour,Baking powder,baking soda,cocoa,salt twice and keep aside.
• Grind the sugar and keep it ready.No need to make a fine powder.Just pulse once.
• Take the sifted flour mixture in a bowl,add the sugar and mix once.Make a well in the center.Add oil,sour cream,vanilla essence and milk and mix well.No need for any beating.Just mix using a whisk till the dry and wet ingredients are mixed well and there are no lumps.
• Finally add hot water and mix to get a thin batter.
• Pour it in a greased and floured baking pan and bake at 170 ºC for 30- 40 mins.
• Check the cake after 20 mins,if it starts browning on the top but still not fully cooked inside then reduce the temperature to 150 ºC and then bake till done.
• Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.
• For the chocolate frosting,beat butter till fluffy,ass sour cream and beat well.Add vanilla essence,cocoa powder,melted chocolate and icing sugar and beat well till you get a nice consistency of the icing.I halved the cake horizontally into 2 layers and spread little icing in between and covered the entire cake with the frosting.

Note:

• If sour cream is not available you can substitute with Yogurt.
• I have used some sour cream in the frosting also.you can omit it and make the regular chocolate butter cream icing.